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Social media advertising software allows users to place ads on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and/or other social media platforms. Some social ad campaigns are designed to promote brand awareness, while others are direct response/click-through ads that aim to generate leads or revenue.
Products in this category include features for:
First-party tools like LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, Facebook for Business, and Twitter Ads manage social ad campaigns on a specific platform. These tend to be popular at SMBs and in the mid-market.
Third-party suites are usually geared towards coordinating the social presence of enterprise brands more broadly (like Sprinklr) or managing ad spend across channels beyond social (like Kenshoo Infinity Suite, Adroll, Marin, and Wordstream).
Facebook for Business is a search engine marketing solution built to drive sales and increase brand awareness via custom ad creation, ad targeting, and robust analytics.
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions is a recently (2015) expanded marketing platform for reaching audiences through the popular Linkedin work-oriented social network that includes modules like the Lead Accelerator (supporting segmentation features to improve conversion), Sponsored Updates, LinkedIn Onsite …
Marin Software is a very popular cloud-based cross-channel marketing advertising campaign management platform which integrates many tools and functions, and it is the name of the company in San Francisco that issues the software. Marin touts cross-display (including mobile-optimized) advertisement r…
Twitter Ads is a search engine marketing tool built around features such as objective-based campaigns, promoted trends, and in-depth analytics.
Wordstream, the eponymous offering from the company in Boston, MA, provides a free tool for analyzing performance "grading" an Adwords campaign, beyond which, Wordstream Advisor provides (for a fee, though a free trial is available) recommendations to optimize a paid advertising campaign on Google, …
Kenshoo Infinity Suite is a cross-channel advertising solution for search marketing, social media and online advertising. The product aims to give advertisers and agencies the control and automation needed to make better investment decisions across search marketing and online advertising.
Sprinklr's Modern Advertising solution offers users tools to plan, publish, and report on paid and earned advertising across social media platforms.
Social.com was a service designed to connects social advertising to CRM and social listening. It is now part of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Functionality of the former Social.com is supplied by the Salesforce Advertising Studio, which is designed to help brands power 1-to-1 advertising, using CR…
MavSocial is a social media visual content management, publishing and advertising platform for brands and agencies. The platform comprises of a number of modules: Visual Content Management: Upload, store and manage to a cloud based library, all images, photo, videos etc., for owned, licensed and …
Insightpool's Ads Optimization product is designed to help organizations see the best results for Twitter ads. The vendor says that its ads targeting platform not only utilizes interest data, but also analyzes thousands of behavioral data points to identify relevant people and predict those who are …
Smartly.io supports Facebook and Instagram advertising campaigns with campaign optimization, multi-product ads, automatic budget allocation and optimization, and custom analytics.
Unified (formerly Unified Social) is a social advertising technology solution, designed to support and supply advertising results across Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
AreaOne headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts offers mobile and social advertising technology.
NetElixir is a search engine marketing and social media advertising solution from the company of the same name. It gathers and evaluates raw data to turn it into actionable insights, in order to improve and facilitate digital marketing efforts.
According to the vendor, The Next Ad is the only Facebook Ad Tech Marketing Partner in the Benelux and one of the few invite-only Google Premier Partners. The Next Ad is a leading Facebook and Google Marketing Partner specialised in e-commerce marketing. We have innovated Ad Tech to empower compan…
Cohley is a content platform that is designed to help brands generate high quality, actionable content. According to the vendor key features and business benefits include: •Scale diverse & actionable high-quality content on an easy-to-use content platform.•Streamline content activation processes…
Bannerwise makes it possible to create professional HMTL5 banner ads. According to the vendor, it allows thousands of businesses to scale-up their banner production, optimize their display campaigns and improve their workflow.According to the vendor, key features and business benefits include: Intui…
There are plenty of options out there, but here's our shortlist of the best Social Media Advertising Software. These products won a Top Rated award for having excellent customer satisfaction ratings. The list is based purely on reviews; there is no paid placement, and analyst opinions do not influence the rankings. To qualify, a product must have 10 or more recent reviews and a trScore of 7.5 or higher, indicating above-average satisfaction for business technology. The products with the highest trScores appear first on the list. Read more about the Top Rated criteria.